APST Professional Learning Planner

APST Professional Learning Planner ESF1100 – The Educator as Professional
Australian Professional Standards for Teachers
(APST) – My professional learning
Confidence & competence levels Professional Learning Action Plan
*What can I do to learn more/develop my skills in this area?
Low Medium High
Standard 1: Know students and how they learn. Medium The student in the class represents a cosmopolitan population and the class
is divided into section, if considered from the learning point of view. I have
tried to understand the mentality of students by trying to motivate them
from different angle, but I feel there is kind of resistance from there. Not all
the students accept my attitude in a friendly way or the way I offer them.
Therefore, I think I need to build the techniques to know the students on the
academic terms. I think introduction reflective learning techniques needs to
be incorporated in the class, encouraging them to use hand signals or
incorporation of response card will allow me to understand in substance,
the things that they are learning. Group activities like choral readings or
think and pair tactics will enable me to understand the way they coordinate
within the group.
Standard 2: Know the content and how to teach it. High I plan my lesson before hand and follow the structure of my lesson plan.
Hardly do I deviate, that does not mean I do not allow the children to ask
question or be reflective in the class. I try to teach them effectively so that
they can function properly beyond the academic environment. I plan my
lecture in such a way so that I can engage students in a reflective learning.
However I feel there are certain sections of students who are little
indifferent in the classroom and I am trying my best to understand the
reason for their indifference. I have tried to encourage people individually
but since it is not working I will try to help them using class managing
strategies.
Standard 3: Plan for and implement effective teaching
and learning.
High I believe, the plan for effective teaching is formulated to suit the nature of
the class of students. The teaching strategies that I tend to use are giving
them individual assessment, think-pair strategies, small group work, mixed
group work, team teaching and so on. I have also incorporated the ‘Bloom’s
Taxonomy’, which can be a valuable strategy to encourage higher-order
though in the student by building the lower level cognitive thought. I plan to
encourage the students based on the competency to take part in the group
activate and also work individually. Owing to the Vygotsky idea of zone of
proximal development, there is tendency of the learners to learn by the
interaction with the person in approximate position. I also to incorporate